Giblets: AMD’s working on an answer to Maxwell

28 May 2014

By Wesley Fick

Its called “Tonga” and it’s named after a chain of islands near Australia that had both pirates and volcanoes in their history. Tonga, according to information leaked by Videocardz, will be a re-arrangement of the GCN architecture for more efficiency and lower power draw, just like Nvidia’s Maxwell-based GTX750 and GTX750 Ti. The card will apparently also have the full compliment of AMD technologies including True Audio, XDMA Crossfire engines, Mantle support, at least 2GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus and it might be called the Radeon R9 275X.